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Meditation holds the potential to help treat children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses or other stressors – a behavioral neuroscientist explains

  • Written by Hilary A. Marusak, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
Meditation holds the potential to help treat children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses or other stressors – a behavioral neuroscientist explainsMeditation and mindfulness techiques are becoming increasingly common in school settings.Alexander Egizarov/EyeEm

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Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our teamfound in the...

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